LATEST CONFIRMED CASES OF COVID-19 IN SOUTH AFRICA (11 July 2022)

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, continues to provide laboratory-based surveillance to inform the public health response towards COVID-19 in South Africa.

Today the institute reports 702 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3,997,975. Today, the NDoH reports 4 deaths in the past 24 hours. The cumulative COVID-19 deaths are 101,880 to date.

25,826,822 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below.

Sector Total tested New tested
Private 14,057,182 54.4% 2,479 45.6%
Public 11,769,640 45.6% 2,963 54.4%
Total 25,826,822 100.0% 5,442 100.0%

PROVINCIAL BREAKDOWN
The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (52%), followed by Kwa-Zulu Natal accounting for 15%. Western Cape accounted for 13%; Free State, Mpumalanga and North West each accounted for 5% respectively; Eastern Cape accounted for 3%; Limpopo accounted for 2%; and Northern Cape accounted for 1% of today’s new cases. The cumulative number of cases by province are shown in the table below:

Province Total cases for 10 July 2022 Incident infections for 11 July 2022 Possible reinfections for 11 July 2022 New cases on 11 July 2022 Total cases for 11 July 2022 Percentage total
Eastern Cape 363,764 15 5 20 363,748 9,1
Free State 215,853 27 6 33 215,886 5,4
Gauteng 1,322,551 302 62 364 1,322,915 33,1
KwaZulu-Natal 716,165 90 17 107 716,272 17,9
Limpopo 159,498 15 1 16 159,514 4,0
Mpumalanga 201,846 28 4 32 201,878 5,0
North West 201,795 20 12 32 201,827 5,0
Northern Cape 115,168 9 1 10 115,178 2,9
Western Cape 700,629 84 8 92 700,721 17,5
Total 3,997,269 590 116 706 3,997,975 100,0

HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS
There has been an increase of 13 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours. The following table is a summary of reported COVID-19 admissions by sector.

Sector Facilities Reporting Admissions
to Date
Died to Date Currently Admitted
Private 262 249,525 40,581 508
Public 407 290,207 63,460 627
TOTAL 669 539,732 104,041 1,135

VACCINE UPDATE
For updates on the national vaccine programme, click here. Thank you for your interest and remember that getting vaccinated for COVID-19 limits your risk of contracting and spreading the disease.

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